68 KEY TO PLANTS. 
or capitate. Leaves compound or phyl- 
lodineous. Style terminal, or nearly so. 
Lequminosae. 
47 (a) Filaments connate throughout. Trees. 
Leaves alternate, exstipulate, translu- 
cently dotted. Flowers regular. Anthers 
extrorse. Style simple, stigma lobed. 
Fruit a berry. America and Madagascar. 
Canellaceae. 
() Filaments free or connate at the base only. 
48. 
48 (a) Leaves, at least the lowermost, opposite. 
Ovules orthotropous. Herbs, under- 
shrubs, or shrubs. Flowers regular. 
Petals caducous. Ovary sessile. Fruit 
capsular. Embryo curved or spiral. 
Albumen mealy or cartilaginous. 
Cistineae. 
(4) Leaves alternate. Ovules anatropous or 
amphitropous. 49, 
49 (a) Style usually wanting, rarely distinctly 
discernible, in the latter case herbs. 
Albumen thin or wanting. Flowers 
hermaphrodite or polygamous. Petals 
nearly always 4 and hypogynous. 
Ovary almost invariably stipitate. Em- 
bryo curved, Capparideae, 
